Falling Fast (Falling Fast #1) by Tina Wainscott

Author:Tina Wainscott [Wainscott, Tina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00OWWOMSS
Publisher: Loveswept
Published: 2015-06-15T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Raleigh woke to the sun kissing his face. He squinted as he opened his eyes, and it wasn’t the sun or the sky that he saw. It was Mia, with her knees pulled up, her arms wrapped around them. Watching him, and looking a bit chagrined at being caught.

He pulled himself to a sitting position on the chaise lounge. “Were you watching me sleep?”

“Oh, my God, it sounds so…sappy when you say it like that. But, yeah, I was. I woke up at first light, and you were the first thing I saw.” She gestured toward the couch where she’d slept. “I mean, because of the way I was lying. I realized we never got to wake up together during those stolen nights we had. I hated that alarm.”

He rubbed at the center of his chest, where her words burrowed in. “Me, too. I threw out the alarm clock. That beeping always meant the end of our time together.”

She was already made up, her hair brushed, dressed in a loose cotton top that covered her scars. Obviously still not ready to reveal herself to him. “I started breakfast. Figured you’d be hungry.”

He couldn’t help thinking how cozy this was. How close they’d come to making love and waking up tangled in each other the way they had years earlier. “Starved.” He pushed to his feet and made sure he hadn’t kicked off the loose pants in which he’d slept.

“Me, too.” Her gaze slid down over his bare chest to where the waistband rode so low that his hip bones were showing.

He hitched them up. “I’ll help.”

“That would be great.” She led the way into the cottage, the windows opened to air it out. The scent of bacon overrode any lingering paint fumes and made his stomach growl. Breakfast was usually a hard-boiled egg on the run. Now he and Mia would be cooking together, then sitting across from each other. Like that normal couple that they could never be.

He’d told her he loved her. The memory slammed him as he watched her cute ass sway back and forth on her way to the kitchen. He hadn’t meant to; he’d simply had no other reason for saying that he’d give her everything. He could tell that she was afraid he’d made the offer out of pity, and he couldn’t have her thinking that. Pity wasn’t even on the list of what he felt for her.

The silence was heavy as they stood side by side at the stove. Things he wanted to say, things he didn’t want to say, all crowded into his head. She was here for only another few days. Could they handle being close without giving in? Part ways with that closure they both claimed they wanted and not a big fat heartache to go with it?

After they set the food on the plates, and she poured glasses of orange juice, they took everything out to the deck.

She watched a flock of seagulls shift out of the way of a woman walking down the beach, like Moses parting the sea.

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